Posted on 02/03/2023 9:06:04 AM PST by george76
A powerful arctic blast swept into the U.S. Northeast on Friday, threatening to push temperatures to record lows in many spots, including New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, where the wind chill could drop to -110 degrees Fahrenheit ...
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Boston and Worcester, the two largest cities in New England, were among the school districts to close on Friday as administrators worried about the risk of hypothermia and frostbite as children waited for buses or walked to school.
The bitter cold in the forecast forced a rare closing of a floating museum that presents a daily re-enactment of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when a band of colonists disguised as Native Americans tossed crates of tea taxed by the king into the harbor. “It’s too cold for that, we’re closed,” a receptionist at the museum said on Friday.
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In Mount Washington State Park, atop the Northeast’s highest peak, temperatures were expected to fall to a record low of -50 F (-46 C) later Friday, officials for the New Hampshire park service said. By comparison, air temperatures in Eureka, Canada’s northernmost Arctic weather station, were hovering at -41 F (-41 C) on Friday morning.
The wind chill, which describes the combined effect of wind and cold temperatures on exposed skin, could register at -110 F (-79 C) at Mount Washington’s peak, typically one of the coldest places in the country.
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While the Northeast was hunkering down, Texas and ... the aftermath of a deadly winter ice storm that brought days of freezing rain, sleet and ice, causing massive power outages and dangerously icy roads.
More than 300,000 homes and businesses in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee remained without power on Friday, according to Poweroutage.us, after ice toppled power lines and trees.
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I was talking to a work partner in New Hampshire just a short time ago. He said the temperature is 8° and falling and they’re expecting about -13° over the weekend. That’s frigid even for them.
“I miss the days of gorebull warming when I could harvest my tomatoes in mid january in fargo”
I remember going to school in 1972 in Michigan in December wearing a t-shirt.
They’re getting more ridiculous.
I always that the New York was part of New England but I was wrong. New your is excluded because it was originally Dutch then French then a colony of England while New England was hacked out of the wilderness by the English only. Interesting.
wrong orifice
And barefoot. And we *liked* it!
“I miss the days of gorebull warming when I could harvest my tomatoes in mid january in fargo”
As a guy that worked Grave shift on a flight line in Minot
I find that to be quite humorous.
I put a wool sweater on, an overcoat, a scarf, mittens and a hat. I was fine.
Then I realize, the public schools around here let kids go to school in pajama bottoms and flip flops. Maybe the kids don't own winter clothing.
If the global warming scam continues in area generations the average idiot will believe that New England was an arctic wasteland that has "catastrophically" warmed up.
The sun is out. It is 18 degrees. They canceled school. Snowflakes!
-20 f predicted for tonight, Currently 2 f at 12:30 pm winds gusting to 20 to 25 mph. Should be a fun night.
Just about to take the dog for a walk, I was thinking about using my heavy coat for the first time this year.
Or to fly a kite. It sure soundly like a mountain to avoid. What is the factors that lead to Mt. Washington to be more cold and windy than the average mountain in New England?
Is Al on a speaking tour?
Texas and now the north east.
He really gets around!
Where is that globull warming when you need it?
Shame heating oil is so expensive. People will die from the cold and the only ones to blame are the Rats. But somehow this will be blamed on Republicans and the media will run with that.
I don’t know, I just know they have a weather station there, and climbers(unwise ones) die there often enough.
I think “Sam Adams 76” (I think on this thread) knows the area...
OMG, OMG we’re all gonna die, SMH! It’s 18 right now, and “feels like” 2 OMG! LOL! Boston schools are closed, as are other schools here in MA.
And we’re very sorry but due to global warming, you may not use gas or oil or coal or wood to heat your homes. Electricity is also out because of excessive demand.
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